Links to the stories produced at the workshop:

Child minders and inspectors
We have captured the story of working across boundaries within our landscape, during the workshop, through a light hearted role-play. This enabled us to share our experiences and perspectives as childminders and inspectors. Telling our stories enabled us to overcome some of the anxieties and barriers that exist... See more

Failures and learning in crossing boundaries
We (Mark, Gill, Sue and Yannis) told each other a series of stories about our experiences of failure as we moved across boundaries in our landscapes of practice. Sometimes we could see that we were crossing a boundary sometimes it was only clear retrospectively that we had done so. Some boundaries are more visible than others... See more

Helping students cross boundaries
Our discussion was prompted by our various experiences in supporting, teaching and researching OU students undertaking the pre - registration nursing programme... See more

Inter-professional communication
The following short report details the process that was involved in determining our ( a group of participants at a two day workshop) views on the way that Landscapes of practice and communities of practice are developed... See more

Research and practice in education
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Parenting - different perspectives in education

Three different stakeholders or players come together around the small square table at the parents’ evening – the subject teacher, the student or pupil, and the parent. Each of these players moves within a highly developed and complex landscape of players and practices... See more

Reshaping your landscape and professional identity
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Mapping out the field of practice...
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Learning for work, learning for life
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The mis-understood bow... See more


Whose voice is it anyway?
Our group worked on the issue of how to effectively incorporate the service users' voice/s and feedback into planning, developing and delivering social work courses. Social work academics do want to include the needs and voices of service users, but ... See more.

Inhabiting incompatible CoPs
The idea of boundaries in a landscape of practice prompted an exploration of the (initially painful) experience of working in two closely related CoPs. This was not a case of moving away from one CoP to another, but moving to another while remaining in the first..... See more